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have to do more explaining and in the first hour he did a better job hitting at romney than ryan did hitting at obama. i think ryan, though, was, came across as ernest, knowledgeable and polite, whereas especially in that first hour, joe biden was clearly playing by cable debate rules, which is interrupt and talk over your opponent at will. i think al is right that is going to enthuse democrats. i am not sure how it is going to play with undecided voters. me personally and i am not an undecided veert it came across as off putting, obnoxious and rude and i can guarantee that on the shows tomorrow morning and in the cable discussion going forward, tomorrow and into the weekend the biden smiles and the biden smirks and the biden interruptions will be a juicy topic for discussion. >> rose: mark hall snrin. >> halperin? >> well, i am mostly going to paraphrase what rich lowry just said, there are two things that clearly come out of this, one is the detrimentally base is going to be pleased that they thought, saw the somebody fighting on their behalf and being aggressive on a lot of big is
have to do more explaining and in the first hour he did a better job hitting at romney than ryan did hitting at obama. i think ryan, though, was, came across as ernest, knowledgeable and polite, whereas especially in that first hour, joe biden was clearly playing by cable debate rules, which is interrupt and talk over your opponent at will. i think al is right that is going to enthuse democrats. i am not sure how it is going to play with undecided voters. me personally and i am not an undecided...
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country that the paul ryan pick is supposed to be about, but they want to hear mitt romney present it. >> rose: can i argue the following, that that is up for grabs because the president can't do that again. i mean, he had an opportunity to do that in 2008 because he was-- he was a candidate that had not been written on, or became a vessel that people could pour all of their hopes into because there was not much to gain. he can't do, that the president can't, so there is an opportunity to somehow capture the optimism of the country. >> that raises a question of why mitt romney hasn't been able to do that. he has had all these opportunities. he has been running since 2008. this is not new to him. he ought to have been able to craft a speech and he certainly ought to be able to at the convention speech. this is a teleprompter speech. this is not an off-the-cuff remarks that mitt romney stipes fluffs. i think the the hardest thing for mitt romney was something dan talked about earlier, and that is the sense of a person who is fluid. there is so much attention on presidential campaigns an
country that the paul ryan pick is supposed to be about, but they want to hear mitt romney present it. >> rose: can i argue the following, that that is up for grabs because the president can't do that again. i mean, he had an opportunity to do that in 2008 because he was-- he was a candidate that had not been written on, or became a vessel that people could pour all of their hopes into because there was not much to gain. he can't do, that the president can't, so there is an opportunity to...
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in part, what you said is true, ryan is currently to the right of romney. and a lot of folks saw this as a place where the tea party activists and the party, but in fact you have to remember the home state of paul ryan which is wisconsin, and was recent events and the past couple of years with the recall contest of the governor, i think this is strategic move. you know, even was thinking it would be ohio where we would choose the candidate from that state. >> ryan went to college there, there's a little bit of a bank shot. >> there's a little bit. but also, you know, ryan has the reputation for being someone whose really into policy, he has program ideas. and it gives a little bit of meat to what romney's been missing so far. i think it's a good compliment to the team. >> yeah, and i think it's a result of the polarization of political parties. since ronald reagan, republics have tended to the move to the right with their vice presidential picks. dan quail was a reach to the conservative by george h.w. bush, chaney and palen. >> interesting, let's take a ph
in part, what you said is true, ryan is currently to the right of romney. and a lot of folks saw this as a place where the tea party activists and the party, but in fact you have to remember the home state of paul ryan which is wisconsin, and was recent events and the past couple of years with the recall contest of the governor, i think this is strategic move. you know, even was thinking it would be ohio where we would choose the candidate from that state. >> ryan went to college there,...
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first, both governor romney and congressman ryan attacked the president for allegedly robbing medicare. $760 million. same tax leveled against congress in 2010 they got a lot of votes on it. but it's not true. look, here's what really happened. you be the judge. here is what really happened. there were no cuts to benefit at all, none. what the president did was to save money by taking a recommendations of a commission of professionals to cut unwarranted subsidies to providers and insurance companies that were not making people healthier and were not necessary to get the providers to provide the service. and instead of raiding medicare he used the savings to close the donut hole in the medicare drug program. [ applause ] and y'all got to listen carefully to this. this street really important. to add eight years to the life of the medicare trust fund so it is solid until 2024. so, president obama and the democrats didn't weaken medicare, they strengthened medicare. now when congressman ryan looked in to that tv camera and attacked president obama's medicare savings as, quote, the biggest
first, both governor romney and congressman ryan attacked the president for allegedly robbing medicare. $760 million. same tax leveled against congress in 2010 they got a lot of votes on it. but it's not true. look, here's what really happened. you be the judge. here is what really happened. there were no cuts to benefit at all, none. what the president did was to save money by taking a recommendations of a commission of professionals to cut unwarranted subsidies to providers and insurance...
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but -- but a romney ryan foreign policy would be anything but funny. everything president of both parties for 60 years has worked for nuclear arms control but not mitt romney. republican secretary of states from kissinger to baker, powell to rice, president bush, 71 united states senators all supported president obama's new start treaty, but not mitt romney. he has even blurted out the preposterous notion that russia is the number one geopolitical foe. folks, sarah palin said she could see russia from alaska. mitt romney talks like he has only seen russia by watching "rocky iv." i tell you. -- so here is the choice -- here is the choice in 2012, mitt romney out of touch at home, out of his depth aboard, and out of the mainstream, or barack obama a president giving new life and truth to america's indispenseible role in the world, a commander in chief who gives our troops the tools and training they need and more the honor and help they have earned when they come home. a man -- a man -- a man who will never ask other men and women to fight a war without
but -- but a romney ryan foreign policy would be anything but funny. everything president of both parties for 60 years has worked for nuclear arms control but not mitt romney. republican secretary of states from kissinger to baker, powell to rice, president bush, 71 united states senators all supported president obama's new start treaty, but not mitt romney. he has even blurted out the preposterous notion that russia is the number one geopolitical foe. folks, sarah palin said she could see...
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or can they -- >> mitt romney created the agenda, when you picked paul ryan's whose signature issue is this reform, you invite it. the press will chase shiny objects, and when you -- the vice president -- nobody votes for vice president, you know that's why like a co-star in a movie, so you ought to be careful and with paul ryan they picked a very attractive guy. now i like paul ryan maybe i will be able to vote for him for president one day, as i said before, i was for a little less flashy choice because the new shiny object is medicare, and generally, depending on the medicare train is a land war in eyes for us there are some consultants that disagree this will be the big election we will change all of that and go on the democratic turf and beat them the first time if my 28 years in running elections i have seen that and i am hoping i am wrong but under the old rule book there is a lot of risk here. >> rose: and you really believe that? >> i think there are people kind of around the romney world who think we made a big pick and exciting pick and energized the base now are my point of
or can they -- >> mitt romney created the agenda, when you picked paul ryan's whose signature issue is this reform, you invite it. the press will chase shiny objects, and when you -- the vice president -- nobody votes for vice president, you know that's why like a co-star in a movie, so you ought to be careful and with paul ryan they picked a very attractive guy. now i like paul ryan maybe i will be able to vote for him for president one day, as i said before, i was for a little less...
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ryan campaign plane. it all underscores how critical the battle ground states are expected to be tonight. but for many people living in the battle grounds, there also was palpable relief it's all coming to an end. voters in aurora, colorado, summed up their feelings. >> relieved. my phone has been ringing off the hook with "vote for this person." i got to the point where i just unplugged the phone. >> just too much. all these ads. i'm so glad it's over. i already had my mind made up a long time. >> reporter: indeed an estimated 46 million people were sure enough to vote early this time around. that's just more than a third of the 133 million ballots expected to be cast. >> ifill: two of our newshour colleagues are stationed at campaign headquarters, where they will be all night. ray suarez is in chicago with the obama team and he joins us now. ray, how did your sense is of what the mood is on the campaign this final day? >> well, they don't have much to say, frankly, from inside the bubble. the campaign h
ryan campaign plane. it all underscores how critical the battle ground states are expected to be tonight. but for many people living in the battle grounds, there also was palpable relief it's all coming to an end. voters in aurora, colorado, summed up their feelings. >> relieved. my phone has been ringing off the hook with "vote for this person." i got to the point where i just unplugged the phone. >> just too much. all these ads. i'm so glad it's over. i already had my...
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particularly on this voucher question, and what romney would propose with paul ryan to do to medicare. i mean, this is where i heard from a couple republicans well now we're on to medicare and this is where the president will just clobber him because it's an issue that's very sensitive and it's one in which mitt romney basically if we get back to this question in secrecy, romney's answer to how are you going to do this, how are you going to cap the ryan of healthcare inflation without hurting quality he basically says well the free market will figure that out which is to say there's not many details about it. the president didn't press him to the mat on that. he gave an answer and assumed everybody would get there. that was true on a number of different policy fronts in the debate time. >> rose: including energy. yes? >> i was going to pick on what john just said. i was struck by how ill prepare the president was. let me take two specifics. one on pre existing, coverage on preexisting conditions. romney is saying for a while he's for it for people who are already covered but not peopl
particularly on this voucher question, and what romney would propose with paul ryan to do to medicare. i mean, this is where i heard from a couple republicans well now we're on to medicare and this is where the president will just clobber him because it's an issue that's very sensitive and it's one in which mitt romney basically if we get back to this question in secrecy, romney's answer to how are you going to do this, how are you going to cap the ryan of healthcare inflation without hurting...
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>> rose: does he have a plan that's different from the ryan plan? >> i think he does and you're going to see more and more of it being fleshed out in the weeks ahead. because you've got to give the american people a positive agenda first but also then obviously then the reason why the president is running on class warfare attacking speculators and all the things that he has been doing is because he can't hide from his record. the stimulus package, the bailout of the bank... dodd-frank bill. remember the dodd-frank bill was going to do what? make sure no institution was ever again too big to fail. these institutions are more bigger and more powerful than they ever were. look at the stimulus package. it was over a trillion dollars counting interest and it's now three and a half years later. probably the biggest mistake that this administration made was obamacare. over 60% of the american people believe it ought to be changed fundamentally or done away with with. >> rose: why do you think that is? is it because they think it's too much of a government
>> rose: does he have a plan that's different from the ryan plan? >> i think he does and you're going to see more and more of it being fleshed out in the weeks ahead. because you've got to give the american people a positive agenda first but also then obviously then the reason why the president is running on class warfare attacking speculators and all the things that he has been doing is because he can't hide from his record. the stimulus package, the bailout of the bank......
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in fact, there's as much interest in ryan as in romney and there's much interest in hearing the roll call which is only 43%. the roll call used to be a big deal. it's not a big deal these days >> brown: it's interesting because it goes to what we've just been talking about and hearing on the show about mitt romney having to define hill self. before i let you go, you've done something, put together a poll we have online, right? which allows people to sort of figure out where they are in the political spectrum. explain >> yeah, there's a big gap between republicans and democrats these days, bigger than at any point in 25 years. we have online at the pew research center and at newshour a little test that you can see when whether your values are republican or democrat the degree to which they are conservative or liberal. you can test yourself compared to temperature graphic groups. it's a lot of fun and very instructive >> brown: find out where you are in case you're in any doubt. andy kohut, thanks a lot. >> woodruff: thank you, jeff and andy. >> woodruff: and you can find out where you
in fact, there's as much interest in ryan as in romney and there's much interest in hearing the roll call which is only 43%. the roll call used to be a big deal. it's not a big deal these days >> brown: it's interesting because it goes to what we've just been talking about and hearing on the show about mitt romney having to define hill self. before i let you go, you've done something, put together a poll we have online, right? which allows people to sort of figure out where they are in...
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and that was the line that biden used so often against paul ryan in their debate. >> a big backdrop to romney wil make of foreign policy has to be set against the huge victory that everyone in america knows which is that he did take out osama bin laden, and i think that is where romney -- obama so completely reversed the relationship to the intelligence. >> rose: romney congratulated him on that very early on in the debate. >> because he has nothing to say about that except well done. >> rose: john? heilemann. >> to come back to your question about, to come back to your question about where the race stand right now and where the momentum is, i think that john dickerson may have overstated where the romney campaign feels things are just a little bit in the sense that i don't think they think they are ahead by seven points but i do think they think that they looked at the nbc wall street journal number an saw the race tied at 47, and they looked at that number and said, you know, 47 is a bad number for an incumbent at this point and they feel like they are making progress across the batt
and that was the line that biden used so often against paul ryan in their debate. >> a big backdrop to romney wil make of foreign policy has to be set against the huge victory that everyone in america knows which is that he did take out osama bin laden, and i think that is where romney -- obama so completely reversed the relationship to the intelligence. >> rose: romney congratulated him on that very early on in the debate. >> because he has nothing to say about that except...
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but he attacks me because we don't have any plans and we heard that line a thousand times from paul ryan so i think that is his argument coming out of this, he didn't have, with the exception of libya, any big stumbles or things that could be considered stumbles he didn't take advantage of his moment to connect with voters, he told a couple of stories, he talked a lot more about his massachusetts record than we have heard certainly earlier in the campaign, that was effort to show the connectivity with voters. i thought one thing about the real estate, this is kind of a bit of theatre review but much lighter on his feet than romney, joking here and there, joking act highways his pension wasn't as big as romney's, a man confident in the way he talked about the libya answer i am commander in chief and you can be confident in that way but also be competent when you are having a little fun, that said investor romney would never go into a deal based on the mathematics of romney the candidate, i think that was a sense of confidence for those watching that con strays maybe in a way that they don
but he attacks me because we don't have any plans and we heard that line a thousand times from paul ryan so i think that is his argument coming out of this, he didn't have, with the exception of libya, any big stumbles or things that could be considered stumbles he didn't take advantage of his moment to connect with voters, he told a couple of stories, he talked a lot more about his massachusetts record than we have heard certainly earlier in the campaign, that was effort to show the...
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plan which is also senator widen's plan. >> rose: which is also mitt romney's plan. >> but here is my question if you don't like it what is your plan? that is my response. >> rose: fair enough. >> and i don't know people ask me how do you like it, i say compared to what, right now the only serious plan to say medicare. >> rose: you are saying i like it because it is the only plan out there or saying i like it because -- >> -- >> all of the things i believe in and if i have my way i would like too see the paul rand budget and plan enacted in toto? >> i this at this paul ryan plan i voted for it and very reasonable approach to this issue. >> rose: period, not in compared to other things. >> i am sure he would agree it can be improved, i don't know the detailed of the paul ryan plan as well as representative rhinos it i can tell you it is a reasonable and responsible approach to medicare reform and the only one out there that allows us to save the program. >> rose: why do you think the president has not come forward with what he would go to reform entitlement spending? because his base w
plan which is also senator widen's plan. >> rose: which is also mitt romney's plan. >> but here is my question if you don't like it what is your plan? that is my response. >> rose: fair enough. >> and i don't know people ask me how do you like it, i say compared to what, right now the only serious plan to say medicare. >> rose: you are saying i like it because it is the only plan out there or saying i like it because -- >> -- >> all of the things i...
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and spending efficiency, paul ryan talks mainly about spending cuts as essential, even more so than changing the revenue base. right? >> i mean, i don't want to -- but your system -- >> how the suck eggs. >> that expression. >> what does that mean? >> you won't tell your grandmother how to suck eggs because grandmother knows. >> you know better than i your system with the elections every two years for congress, it is a very different system, we now have legislative fiv five-year terms, parliamentary terms so it is a different issue there. i mean, your challenge, obviously is to get the medium term agreement with the $4 trillion worth of savings that the president is is proposed. >> over ten years. >> over ten years, but you also have got to make sure that in the short-term, you don't strangle your economy. and what i can tell you is our experience is we have strangled our economy. so our debt is going up, when your economy shrinks by definition your debt to gdp ratio, your debt to national income ratio goes up instead of down. >> when we come to the euro zone before i leave it, it w
and spending efficiency, paul ryan talks mainly about spending cuts as essential, even more so than changing the revenue base. right? >> i mean, i don't want to -- but your system -- >> how the suck eggs. >> that expression. >> what does that mean? >> you won't tell your grandmother how to suck eggs because grandmother knows. >> you know better than i your system with the elections every two years for congress, it is a very different system, we now have...
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obama is honestly is like 20 types better than romney, romney is totally -- i mean it is just this wonderful story about a fund raiser he had in hampton you would have thought they were making it up, but from -- the ryan plan would just literally wipe the middle class out in this country, if there is anything left of them they won't be standing if the healthcare goes up $6,000 a year, in the face of medicare, so, sure, i mean, i think president obama has been much better of late, but understand that we come from this from a little different position. stan and i, believe this is the greatest problem the united states is facing is what do we do about the middle class in this country. >> rose: two things though it is the income inequality and the middle class or do you want the economic growth? >> inequality is an important subject and a lot of people write books about these and these are good books -- >> rose: income disparity? >> the lack of income growth among the middle class, the disparity, i would say would bother us -- if the middle class line was rising and people were getting into it,
obama is honestly is like 20 types better than romney, romney is totally -- i mean it is just this wonderful story about a fund raiser he had in hampton you would have thought they were making it up, but from -- the ryan plan would just literally wipe the middle class out in this country, if there is anything left of them they won't be standing if the healthcare goes up $6,000 a year, in the face of medicare, so, sure, i mean, i think president obama has been much better of late, but understand...